However, malnutrition is common in patients with renal failure, due both to poor oral intake and also to a catabolic metabolic state.
People debilitated by malnutrition will be all the more susceptible to disease whether known or new.
Refeeding syndrome, nutritional deficiencies, psychological sequelae of malnutrition, all were easy to find and useful.
It is these factors and not prolonged breastfeeding per se, which account for the association with malnutrition and diarrhoeal disease.
Although a calculated value may seem an easy alternative, it should be used with caution, especially in patients with hypertension, heart failure or malnutrition.
Respiratory infections and diarrhoea both reached peak incidences between the ages of 6 and 24 months when children are at highest risk of malnutrition.
Clinically, malnutrition is characterized by inadequate intake of protein, energy, and micronutrients and by susceptibility to infection or disease.
All of the clinically available nutrition screening instruments lack sensitivity and specificity and cannot be relied on individually as definitive diagnostic tests for protein-energy malnutrition.
